Robbie Basho

Robbie Basho

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Name = Robbie Basho
Background = khaki


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Birth_name = Daniel R. Robinson Jr.
Born = birth date|1940|8|30|mf=y
Origin = Baltimore, MD, U.S.
Died = death date and age|1986|2|27|1940|8|30|mf=y
Occupation = Guitarist
Label = Takoma Blue Thumb Vanguard Records Windham Hill Silver Label Recordings
Years_active = 1965–1986

Robbie Basho (August 31, 1940 - February 27, 1986) was a composer, guitarist and pianist, and one of the pioneers of the acoustic steel string guitar in America. His vision was to see the steel string as a concert instrument and to create a Raga system for America. During a radio interview in 1974, promoting his album Zarthus, Robbie discussed his music in detail. He described how he had gone through a number of "periods" related to philosophy and music, including Japanese, Hindu, and Native American. Zarthus represented the culmination his "Persian period". Robbie asserted his wish, along with John Fahey and Leo Kottke, to raise the steel-string guitar to the level of a concert instrument. He acknowledged that the nylon-string guitar was suitable for "love songs", but its steel counterpart could communicate "fire". Basho credited his interest in Indian music to hearing Ravi Shankar, whom he first encountered in 1962. The details of his death are unclear, with obituaries reporting it to be as a result of a strokecite news | title = Obituaries | date = March 4, 1986 | publisher = The San Francisco Chronicle ] , while some accounts report it to be as result of a chiropractic neck adjustment.cite news | title = Basho's passing| url = http://launch.groups.yahoo.com/group/robbiebasho_forum/message/67 | date = December 20, 2007 | publisher = Yahoo! Music Groups ]

Guitar style

Robbie Basho's dexterous, finger-picked guitar technique was influenced heavily by Sarod playing, and the studies he undertook with the Indian virtuoso Ali Akbar Khan. Basho employed unusual open tunings, including a number of variants on "Open-C" (CGCGCE) and played a 12-string guitar, in order to recreate the drone that is a notable feature of his beloved Hindu music. Basho's guitar melodies were often created using Eastern modes and scales, but his work contains a broad range of noticeable influences, from European Classical Music to Blues (in his earlier period) and Ballad styles of America.

Discography

* 1965 The Seal of the Blue Lotus (Takoma)
* 1966 The Grail and the Lotus (Takoma)
* 1966 Various Artists: Contemporary Guitar (Takoma)
* 1967 Basho Sings (Takoma)
* 1967 The Falconer's Arm I (Takoma)
* 1967 The Falconer's Arm II (Takoma)
* 1969 Venus in Cancer (Blue Thumb)
* 1971 Song of the Stallion (Takoma)
* 1972 The Voice of the Eagle (Vanguard)
* 1974 Zarthus (Vanguard)
* 1978 Visions of the Country (Windham Hill)
* 1979 Art of the Acoustic Steel String Guitar 6 & 12 (Windham Hill)
* 1981 Rainbow Thunder: Songs of the American West (Silver Label Recordings)
* 1983 Bouquet , MC (Basho Productions)
* 1984 Twilight Peaks , MC (The Art of Relaxation)
* 2008 Bonn 1st Supreme, CD Live! (Bo'Weavil Recordings)

References

External links

* [http://www.robbiebasho-archives.info/ Robbie Basho Archives, biography, discography, tunings, notes, articles, spotlights]
* [http://www.bluemomentarts.de/bma/rbasho/en/index.html Robbie Basho Archives + [Steffen Basho-Junghans]
* [http://launch.groups.yahoo.com/group/robbiebasho_forum/ Yahoo! discussion group]
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* [http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendid=69138372 Robbie Basho tribute biography & music sample]


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